Who makes the news?
There is an 85 year old writer in the Ecologist who makes a lot of sense.
Here are some of the things she says in her article 'Who makes the news?' which was in the july/ august edition.
She begins by criticising the media for spending so much coverage time on the abduction or whatever of the girl in Portugal, then:
As I write at my kitchen table, the 'news' bulletin on BBC TV leads with, well, what do you suppose?
Was it the gigantic stock market fever of takeovers and mergers currently mounting to an almighty crash? The energy and oil crisis? Global warming? Rising crime rates? The extermination of increasing numbers of species on whoich our own lives depend?
No. Why bother with such trifles when an aeroplane develops a technical fault preventing hundreds of Liverpool fans from flying across Europe to watch a game in Athens? There's news for you!
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The media today is run by the board room boys, who control the gigantic international trade and manufacture of arms, they control the oil, the banks, insurance, transport, political party funding (yes!) and more.
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Before we can se the answer we must see the problem: a public consciousness with a totally false conception of public affairs; affairs so out of control that they threaten our survival. The media is itself a part of th emachinery of this catastrophe and the short answer is, as it is for so much else, do it yourself, do it local and do it small....
Cassandra on p. 23 of The Ecologist. July/ August 2007
I wish though, she would put in some references for the statements she makes about who controls our news. I would like to know in what way they do. I would like to know how they control the BBC - and if they do, than how does the BBC still manage to produce independent and not necessarily big-corporation-friendly stuff?
Here are some of the things she says in her article 'Who makes the news?' which was in the july/ august edition.
She begins by criticising the media for spending so much coverage time on the abduction or whatever of the girl in Portugal, then:
As I write at my kitchen table, the 'news' bulletin on BBC TV leads with, well, what do you suppose?
Was it the gigantic stock market fever of takeovers and mergers currently mounting to an almighty crash? The energy and oil crisis? Global warming? Rising crime rates? The extermination of increasing numbers of species on whoich our own lives depend?
No. Why bother with such trifles when an aeroplane develops a technical fault preventing hundreds of Liverpool fans from flying across Europe to watch a game in Athens? There's news for you!
...........
The media today is run by the board room boys, who control the gigantic international trade and manufacture of arms, they control the oil, the banks, insurance, transport, political party funding (yes!) and more.
...........
Before we can se the answer we must see the problem: a public consciousness with a totally false conception of public affairs; affairs so out of control that they threaten our survival. The media is itself a part of th emachinery of this catastrophe and the short answer is, as it is for so much else, do it yourself, do it local and do it small....
Cassandra on p. 23 of The Ecologist. July/ August 2007
I wish though, she would put in some references for the statements she makes about who controls our news. I would like to know in what way they do. I would like to know how they control the BBC - and if they do, than how does the BBC still manage to produce independent and not necessarily big-corporation-friendly stuff?
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